SACO, Maine — Florine (Ciarlariello) Dowling, 83, of Saco, formerly of Bethany, Conn., died on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at the Monarch Center in Saco. She was the wife of the late Thomas J. Dowling who died in 2003.

Florine was born in Oswego, N.Y., on July 1, 1929, a daughter of the late Michael and Dora (Tucci) Ciarlariello. She moved to Italy and was raised there until the age of eight before moving to Waterbury, Conn. She graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury. After graduating, she married Thomas J. Dowling in 1949 and celebrated 54 years of marriage. She and her husband owned and operated the Town & Country convenience store in Bethany, Conn., from 1963 until they retired and sold the business in the early 1990s.

She was an active member of St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Naugatuck, Conn.

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